wxChoicebook generic implementation.

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / control.h

diff --git a/include/wx/control.h b/include/wx/control.h
index 00be04211e89eb9c5ba66894a0d8995140da7fb4..b6136bd44950d80aac5c12d601cf5f37a5025140 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/control.h
+++ b/include/wx/control.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // Modified by:
 // Created:     26.07.99
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
-// Copyright:   (c) wxWindows team
+// Copyright:   (c) wxWidgets team
 // Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
@@ -47,12 +47,24 @@ public:
                 const wxValidator& validator = wxDefaultValidator,
                 const wxString& name = wxControlNameStr);
 
+    // get the control alignment (left/right/centre, top/bottom/centre)
+    int GetAlignment() const { return m_windowStyle & wxALIGN_MASK; }
+
+
+    // controls by default inherit the colours of their parents, if a
+    // particular control class doesn't want to do it, it can override
+    // ShouldInheritColours() to return false
+    virtual bool ShouldInheritColours() const { return true; }
+
+
+    // WARNING: this doesn't work for all controls nor all platforms!
+    //
     // simulates the event of given type (i.e. wxButton::Command() is just as
     // if the button was clicked)
     virtual void Command(wxCommandEvent &event);
 
-    // get the control alignment (left/right/centre, top/bottom/centre)
-    int GetAlignment() const { return m_windowStyle & wxALIGN_MASK; }
+    virtual void SetLabel( const wxString &label );
+    virtual bool SetFont(const wxFont& font);
 
 protected:
     // creates the control (calls wxWindowBase::CreateBase inside) and adds it
@@ -65,12 +77,20 @@ protected:
                        const wxValidator& validator,
                        const wxString& name);
 
-    // inherit colour and font settings from the parent window
-    void InheritAttributes();
-
     // initialize the common fields of wxCommandEvent
     void InitCommandEvent(wxCommandEvent& event) const;
 
+    // set the initial window size if none is given (i.e. at least one of the
+    // components of the size passed to ctor/Create() is -1)
+    //
+    // normally just calls SetBestSize() but can be overridden not to do it for
+    // the controls which have to do some additional initialization (e.g. add
+    // strings to list box) before their best size can be accurately calculated
+    virtual void SetInitialBestSize(const wxSize& size)
+    {
+        SetBestSize(size);
+    }
+
     DECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxControlBase)
 };